" L’Heure du Cocktail was seen as very avant-garde when it was published in 1927,” explains Gaylor Oliver, founder of young Parisian publisher Corps Reviver. “No French cocktail books looked like it at the time: the content was organised by hours, illustrations were created by a member of Salon de L’Araignée (a very interesting and a bit lost-in-time avant-garde group of illustrators founded by Gus Bofa), the recipes were created by poets and film-makers… It was really a new approach to the cocktail book.”

When Corps Reviver asked design studio Spin to design a new release of the book, the approach had to be different. “It would have made no sense to make the reprint look like the usual cocktail book with photographs and the like,” says Gaylor. Spin has instead created a beautifully pared-back book of black ink drawings and simple text recipes on coloured paper stock.

“The paper is a hint at the passing of time, the sun setting,” explains Spin founder Tony Brook. “The book suggests the right cocktail to drink at the right time over an evening, and early hours of the morning.”

Tony created the images himself using ink and a brush. “They were inspired by some imagery in the original book. My version is a much more abstract, painterly response, meant to allude to the affects of the cocktails over time.”

The cover also fuses the concepts of time and drinking: “It suggests a clock face, made by painting the bottom of a glass,” says Tony. “The typography, designed by Claudia Klat and Gaby Luong, is very structured and refined, providing a nice, sharp, contemporary contrast to the organic nature of the painting.”

Spin has also designed the identity for the publisher Corps Reviver, based on its name, which is a play on corpse reviver – a variety of cocktail that’s meant to “perk you up after a heavy night on the sauce”. Hence the “punchy” design that uses the ‘V’s of its name as arrows, which Tony says he turned upside down to “suggest recovery and optimism”.

Design studio Córdova Canillas is a constant source of inspiration. We previously featured the studio for its work with Fuet magazine, Creatives’ Club and the time when the team shared an insight into how the studio began. More recently, Diego Cordova and Marti Canillas channelled their expertise into a completely fresh redesign of Fucking Young! magazine.

A new book collating 350 retro posters, pressbooks and stills from the “golden age” of porn cinema is being published by Reel Art Press. X-Rated Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s by Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh celebrates the unashamedly crude, cut-and-pasted collage artwork made to promote these B-movies and their provocative titles such as Flesh Gordon and Come One Come All.

“Riding the line between brutal exorcism and a poetic sublime, boxing has produced more legends than any other sport of the last century,” so says Anicee Gaddis in an article in Victory Journal which takes a closer look at Ghana’s boxing scene.

Graphic designer Paul Bouigue’s offbeat zine, Le mois d’août is about holidays and how various inanimate objects feel during the summer break. “Actually they are not feeling very cool – they kind of feel forgotten,” says Paul. Inspired by the time he spends alone working at his parents’ house, Paul thought it would be interesting to draw the objects around him that he often ignores. “I wanted to make them look and feel how I was feeling.”

German illustrator Max Löffler’s project Daymare Boogie is “an attempt to understand and grasp this raging current called modern life”. Addressing our imperfections and the anxieties faced by all, the black and white zine looks at the issues surrounding individuals in society. “The idea derives from a project I did before called Psychic Vault. It was about subconscious memory and I had a lot more ideas that would fit in the zine, so I just kept on illustrating,” explains Max. “When I had a decent amount, I stumbled upon 100for10 by Melville Brand Design, which is an artist book project with each book consisting of 100 black and white pages available to buy for 10€. I contacted them and started to work on the illustrations so that they would fit in the concept of Daymare Boogie.”

You can always count on Canadian quarterly publishing venture, Editorial Magazine to bend the rules of art and photography content, with its sharp articles and commissioning wit. Its most recent issue, which editor-in-chief Claire Milbrath describes as the best yet, continues this flair and even includes dogs too.